Card game



J. HLTIENCKEN.

CARD GAME.

APPLICATION F-ILED NOV. 13. 1920.

ILAQGQZS, Patented l kug. 22,1922.

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J. H. TIENCKEN.

{ CARD GAME.

APPLICATIQN FILED NOV IB, 1920.

1,226,922, Patented Aug. 22, 2222.

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CARD GAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 252, 1922,

Application filed November 13, 1320. Serial No. 423,784.

T 0 (ZZZ ii /10m ii" may, Uzi-acorn Be it known that l, Jenn ii. Turner; a citizen of the United Fitates of .limerica, residing at Charleston, in the county of Charleston and State of South Carolina, have invented new and useful Improvements in Card Games, of which the follow in; is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a card me apparatus of an instructive as ch as an attractive and entertaining character involrine some of'the n'inciples of but embodying radical departures from those which are incident to and associated with ordinary playing bad and adapting the 8513118 to a marked d' crence in the method and principle of use or play, in that the value ctor in the result of the vgame which is i adcnt-"to the possession by a player of certain cards belonging; for example to a given'suit is dependent upon obtaining and retaining possession of a key card which issubject at all stages of the game throughout the play to transfer by voluntary draft from one participant in the game to another; and with this object in view theinvention consists in the construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the drav-vingg', wherein-- 3 Figures 1 to inclusive represent respectively selected cards of the'fi .'e different suits of which the pack is mainly composed.

Figures 6 and 7 respectively represent the key cards.

The apparatus consists essentially of ifty-two cards which obviously may be made of aluminum or other sheet metal or of cardboard or any like suitable material preferably of the double ended or double headed type, fifty of which cards are divided into live suits of ten cards each respectively representing and bearing characters or insignia. or designations in the way of illustrations or words or both representing articles of furniture or equipment of the different rooms or apartments of a dwelling house, as for example the parlor, dining room, living room, kitchen, and bed room. Each card of a suit, for example, should bear a designation representing the suit as for example by the word Parlor in the left-hand upper corner and an article of furniture suitable to or usually associated with a parlor, such as a piano represented by the word in the upper right-hand corner, While in the center panel of the card, in such a position as to be read in either position of the card, that is to whether one end or the other is held uppermost, may appear a representation of the articlerepresenting the particular designation of the card as for example a piano and so on throughout the suit. The suits are preferably distinguishably designated from each other by different colors or otherwise so that the various cards belonging to a given suit may be readily distinguished from those of other suits, and the several cards of each suitare distinguishably desi 'nated as above noted by the worcs or illustrations representing the different articles of furniture belonging to the furnis ling of an apartment or room represented by that suit.

The key cards represented in Figures 6 and 7 are of a rovering or independent character adapted for association with either suit, according to that of which the cards havebe'en collected in play by a given participant in the game and respectively rep resenting man and wife or husband and wife, bearing, for example, in Words designations to that effect and also in the center "anels thereof representations respectively 1 a man and awoman, said cards also preferably being distinguishably designated with reference to the other cards of the pack by appropriate or distinctive coloring. Obviously the reverse sides of the cards should be of awuniform appearance, suitably ornamented or decorated but having no distinctive characteristics with reference to the suits which they respectively represent.

The game for which the apparatus is particularly designed has for its object the accumulation by a player of all of the cards of a single suit representing as above noted a selected apartment or room together with one of the key cards. it being necessary to possess one of the key cards in addition to all of the cards of a given suit in order to claim a victory, and to this end the cards should be distributed or dealt to the participants of the game as in various other card games so as to divide the pack as nearly as possible equally among the players as by dealing one card each to the participants in succession. inclusive of the suit cards and key cards, after proper shuffling thereof, until the pack has been exhausted. Each player then may select from his hand those cards belonging to a particular suit upon which he desires to build or which he elects to reserve as the nucleus of an accumulation designed to result in the possession of a c0m-- plete suit, and these cards of the selected suit should be withdrawn from his hand and placed face downward upon the table or playing board so as not tobe visible or in dicate to the other participants oftheame the suit which he has thus selected. proceeds by drawingsuccessively by each player from the player at his right or left, (as may be preferred) beginning with the player at the left of the dealer as in other card games, 'the cards being held up for the draw under such conditions and in such a manner that the party drawing the card is unaware of the value ordesignation thereof, and the cardsas' they are thusdrawn being either turned'face down with the cards of the suit already selected, it they belong-to such suit or being placed in the hand subject to draw by the next player, if they do not belong to the selected suit, until one of the participants has succeeded infobtaining all of the cards oi the selected suit. The key cards are retained-in the hands of the play-- ers throughout the process of drawing and are, therefore, subject atall times to draft by the'participants,ot the game, and it a player having completedthe pack or suit happens-to hold one of the key cards he can at once declare a victory, but otherwise drawing of 'cards must continue until he can obtain possession of one of the key cards whichis necessary to give winning: value to the suit which he has already succeeded in building.

Obviously one of the complications which may arise in the'course otplay under the circumstances indicated is that two players for example may elect to build to the same suit, and thisfact, becoming apparent only by reason of the withdrawal from circulation of most of the cards of that suit, it beputting into play the cards of the suit previously selected exposes himself to the risk of having the other player rapidly accumulate the cards necessary to complete the book.

est oi. the game resides inthe aim of each player to retain possession of a key card thereof, the delay in obtaining possession of a key card after a player has completed his suit aflording opportunity for any other player to in turn complete his suit, with the prospect of ultimately claiming a Victory if possession of the necessary key card it will be seen that the opportunities for affording innocent amusement are plentiful, and the necessity for ol'iservingthe restraint inci- Another complication adding to the interp in the meantime the second player can retain dent to the concentration necessary in remembering the'cards played. which is essentia'l in many card games'is absent.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new and useful is:

A game apparatusconsisting of a pack of v I cardsconsisting of a plurality of distinguishably designated suits'each containing a corresponding number of distinguishably designated cards and a plurality of key' cards of which the number 1s less than suits, each of said suits the number of representing an apartment or room. ofa dwelling and each cardof eachsuit representing :an individual article of furnitureand equipment-of such apartment or room,

the key cards representing each a-hum an occupant of the apartment or'room. t

' In testimony whereof he afiixes his .signature.

JOHN H.- TIENGKEN; 

